ST802107 at BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (Mark Siegal) writes:
>When I was a teaching assistant for Genetics, I gave students the
>following mnemonic for purines and pyrimidines:
>pYrimidines = cYtosine, thYmine
>purines = guanine, adenine
>(The 2 bases with Y's in the name are pyrimidines, also
>with a Y in the name.)
Another mnemonic:
CUT the Py
Cytosine Uracil Thymidine the PYrimidines
^ ^ ^ ^^
Anyone know of any other useful biological mnemonics?
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